Package

r-rcppblaze

Description

'Blaze' is an open-source, high-performance C++ math library for dense
and sparse arithmetic. With its state-of-the-art Smart Expression
Template implementation 'Blaze' combines the elegance and ease of use of
a domain-specific language with 'HPC'-grade performance, making it one
of the most intuitive and fastest C++ math libraries available. The
'Blaze' library offers: - high performance through the integration of
'BLAS' libraries and manually tuned 'HPC' math kernels - vectorization
by 'SSE', 'SSE2', 'SSE3', 'SSSE3', 'SSE4', 'AVX', 'AVX2', 'AVX-512',
'FMA', and 'SVML' - parallel execution by 'OpenMP', C++11 threads and
'Boost' threads ('Boost' threads are disabled in 'RcppBlaze') - the
intuitive and easy to use API of a domain specific language - unified
arithmetic with dense and sparse vectors and matrices - thoroughly
tested matrix and vector arithmetic - completely portable, high quality
C++ source code. The 'RcppBlaze' package includes the header files from
the 'Blaze' library with disabling some functionalities related to link
to the thread and system libraries which make 'RcppBlaze' be a header-
only library. Therefore, users do not need to install 'Blaze' and the
dependency 'Boost'. 'Blaze' is licensed under the New (Revised) BSD
license, while 'RcppBlaze' (the 'Rcpp' bindings/bridge to 'Blaze') is
licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, as is the rest of 'Rcpp'.
Note that since 'Blaze' has committed to 'C++14' commit to 'C++14' which
does not used by most R users from version 3.0, we will use the version
2.6 of 'Blaze' which is 'C++98' compatible to support the most compilers
and system.

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